Amsterdam What's on
Historisch Museum guided tours.
29 July-28 Oct 2006. Amsterdams History Museum is running combination guided tours of the museum and the Dutch capital on Sat afternoons. Each tour features a different aspect of the citys history thr...
Amsterdam What's on
27 June-8 July 2006. The 16th edition of the Summer Festival of Contemporary Dance Julidans opens with French choreographer Maguy Marin presenting her Beckett-inspired slice-of-life performance Umwelt...
Amsterdam What's on
12 April-3 Sept 2006. Amsterdams Historisch Museum hosts an interactive exhibition exploring the life of the young German- Jewish refugee Anne Frank through the letters and postcards she wrote to fami...
Amsterdam What's on
17-25 June 2006. The annual world music Roots Festival in Amsterdam opens with a performance of Karmen by Goran Bregovic and his Orchestra for Weddings and Funerals at the Paradiso on 17 June at 21.00...
Amsterdam What's on
4 Feb-2 July 2006. Wilkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! After a successful six-year run on Broadway, the musical Cabaret comes to the Koninklijk Theater Carr, which has been converted into a seedy Berlin ni...
Amsterdam What's on
27 June-9 July 2006. Gioacchino Rossinis comic opera The Barber of Seville is presented by De Nederlandse Opera in a revival of its 2000 production designed and directed by Italian Nobel prize-winner...
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16-18 June 2006. Around 30 mostly privately owned canal-side gardens are to be opened to the public for three days. Organized by the Amsterdam Canal Museums, this tour through four centuries of garden...
Amsterdam What's on
2-25 June 2006. The Netherlands largest performing arts festival presents 90 shows as well as art exhibitions, film and fringe activities around Amsterdam. Highlights include Peter Greenaways installa...
Amsterdam What's on
19-21 May 2006. The BBCs Kate Adie OBE is among the guest authors at the Amsterdam Literary Festival, now in its second edition. The programme includes a screenwriting workshop run by US director Cher...
Amsterdam What's on
18 May-6 June 2006. The Amsterdam Filmmuseum hosts a tribute to French filmmaker Louis Malle (1932-1995), opening with his 1960s comedy Zazie dans le Mtro. A satire on French bourgeois society, the fi...
Amsterdam What's on
27-28 April 2006. The Stadsschouwburg Theatre hosts Rotterdams Scapino Ballet Company with its latest work in which four choreographers each present a 20-minute performance. Amanda Millers work entitl...
Amsterdam What's on
24 April-18 June 2006. The annual Dutch-based World Press Photo competition, open to professional news photographers from all over the world, culminates in an exhibition which then tours 85 countries....
Amsterdam What's on
20-23 April 2006. The annual international horse show in the Dutch capital is hosted by the Amsterdam RAI. First held in 1958, this leading equestrian event has over 50,000 visitors every year. The Dr...
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9 March-24 May 2006. The Rijksmuseum presents an exhibition of paintings initially attributed to Rembrandt and acquired by the museum as such, but whose authenticity is now in question. This unusual e...
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22 March-9 April 2006. The Dutch National Ballet presents Swan Lake at the Het Muziektheater. Choreographer and former artistic director Rudi van Danzig has kept the spectacular Black Swan pas de deux...
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Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival.
19-26 April 2006. This is the 22nd edition of Amsterdams festival of science fiction, horror, cult, thriller and fantasy films. The theme this year is Marx Attacks, with rarely-seen science fiction fi...
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26 Feb-19 March 2006. The Comedy Caf on the Max Euweplein features stand-up comedians every night from Wednesday to Sunday. Wednesday is Talent Night, while professional stand-up comedians headline fr...
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World Music at the Concergebouw.
Until 4 June 2006. Musicians from all over the world play traditional music and instruments at Amsterdams Concertgebouw. The velvety voice of Tt Alhinho from Cape Verde is in concert on 10 March accom...
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Pilgrim Treasures at the Hermitage.
1 Oct 2005-26 Mar 2006. This unusual exhibition at the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam presents almost 200 art treasures brought back as souvenirs from the sanctuaries in the Holy Land. On loan from the...
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24 Feb-18 June 2006. The Van Gogh Museum presents over 35 major paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 1610) in the first exhibition ever to bring the...
